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CHAP. 35.—THE BUPLEURON: FIVE REMEDIES.

The bupleuron1 is reckoned by the Greeks in the number
of the leguminous plants which grow spontaneously. The
stem of it is a cubit in height, the leaves are long and numerous, and the head resembles that of dill. It has been
extolled as an aliment by Hippocrates, and for its medicinal
properties by Glaucon and Nicander. The seed of it is good
for the stings of serpents; and the leaves, or else the juice, applied as a liniment with wine, bring away the after-birth. The
leaves, also, in combination with salt and wine, are applied to
scrofulous sores. The root is prescribed in wine for the stings
of serpents, and as a diuretic.

1 "Bull's side," apparently. Fée says that the identification of this
plant is quite uncertain; the Buplevrum rigidum of Linnæus, the Bup-
levrum Baldense of Willdenow, and the Ammi majus of Linnæus having
been suggested. The first, he thinks, could never have been used as a
vegetable, and the second is only found on Mount Baldo in Carniola, and
in Croatia. Though the Ammi majus is more than a cubit in height, and
could never have been used as a vegetable, he looks upon it as the most
likely of the three. The seeds of it where formerly used as a carminative.

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